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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now set to launch on August 30, 2026, a date that lands roughly eight months before the agency’s formal commitment deadline of May 2027. The accelerated timeline follows the completion of construction,
According to NASA, the spacecraft launched with enough fuel to keep it running until 2030, but the agency lost contact with MAVEN after it emerged from behind Mars on December 6. Telemetry data showed that all its subsystems had been working normally prior to the loss of signal, but attempts to reestablish contact were unsuccessful.
Dubbed the Moonfall mission, NASA also plans to send four drones to the moon to help it study the lunar surface and identify natural resources and potential landing sites. They will also use the technology to create a "Moon Base perimeter" that will identify the corners of a potential settlement site.
We've been hearing from NASA about its plans for a moon base to keep a permanent human presence there. It could end up covering the size of a large city - and Mars is next in the agency's sights. Follow the latest below.
NASA is hosting a news conference at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26, to share plans for a lunar base and highlight progress toward a sustained presence on the lunar surface.
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NASA's Voyager 1 was launched almost 49 years ago and is still actively travelling through deep space, currently over 15 billion miles away from Earth. Voyager 1 was created by humans and is the furthest any human-made object has ever travelled. However ...
